Biographies & Memoirs
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-09-28 | Author:Andro Linklater [Linklater, Andro]

20 AGENT 13 REBORN NEW ORLEANS WAS WHERE JAMES WILKINSON had first transferred his loyalties to Spain. Two years later, it was where he had returned to negotiate his transition ...
( Category: American Revolution March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1973-01-01 | Author:Henry de Monfreid [Monfreid, Henry de]

TWENTY-THREE The Hiding-Place At dawn the white lights of Suez faded before the golden glory of the sun, and the town suddenly appeared out of the desert in dazzling clearness. ...
( Category: Great Britain March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-15 | Author:Arthur Herman [Herman, Arthur]

If Irwin and his policemen thought Gandhi’s arrest might end their troubles, as it had done in 1922, they were sorely mistaken. Noncooperation intensified over the next ten months. The ...
( Category: Gandhi March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-04-06 | Author:Ron Chernow

CHAPTER 21 The Enthusiast When Rockefeller receded from the business world in the mid-1890s, the average American was earning less than ten dollars per week. Rockefeller’s average income—a stupefying $10 ...
( Category: Invertebrates March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Richard Bassett

CHAPTER NINE KEEPING THE EMPIRE AFLOAT I would rather have three or four teeth extracted than go through that again. HITLER 1 On 19 September 1939, Churchill had recommended to ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:William C. Davis [Davis, William C.]

SEVENTEEN Deadly Friends 1817–1818 Slight are the outward signs of evil thought, Within—within—'twas there the spirit wrought! Love shows all changes—Hate, Ambition, Guile, Betray no further than the bitter smile. ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-13 | Author:David Nasaw [Nasaw, David]

Twenty-four THE WORST OF TIMES Kennedy tried to keep his spirits up, tried to control his rage, tried to look on the positive side. His family and fortune were intact, ...
( Category: Diplomacy March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-12 | Author:Arthur G. Sharp [Sharp, Arthur G.]

Show Me the Money There was one thing Washington needed five years into war more than guns: money. He asked Knox to raise funds for him. Knox completed his mission ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-05-01 | Author:Paula Uruburu [Uruburu, Paula]

CHAPTER ELEVEN The Worst Mistake of Her Life In Domrémy, France, the birthplace of Joan of Arc, Harry wrote in the guestbook, “she would not have been a virgin if ...
( Category: Authors March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alison Weir [Weir, Alison]

12. Conspiracies Dominic Mancini left England during the week after the coronation, and his account, sadly for us, ends there. He says that, before his departure, the Princes had 'ceased ...
( Category: Royalty March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Alison Weir [Weir, Alison]

There have been claims that Henry VIII fathered other bastard children, although only one is based on compelling evidence.71 It has often been said that Henry would have had good ...
( Category: Great Britain March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-10-15 | Author:Weir, Alison [Weir, Alison]

So how did Darnley die? The plot to kill him was masterminded by Maitland and Moray, Maitland being the active partner, Moray the passive one but the ultimate beneficiary. Their ...
( Category: Royalty March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Alison Weir [Weir, Alison]

Elizabeth was passionate about the theatre, and actively protected it from the Puritans who wanted it banned. In 583, she formed her own theatre company, the Queen's Men, of whom ...
( Category: Great Britain March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alison Weir [Weir, Alison]

38 “Squire Harry Will Be God, and Do as He Pleases!” It was around 1530 that a former servant of Wolsey’s, Thomas Cromwell, entered the King’s service. One of the ...
( Category: Royalty March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Colin Wilson [Wilson, Colin]

*** The Oneida Community Smith’s advocacy of plural marriage was undoubtedly one of the chief causes of later hostility to the Mormons. Another prophet from Vermont whose views caused equal ...
( Category: Politics & Social Sciences March 26,2014 )